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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Blogger Meetup - BadMomGoodMom

BadMomGoodMom was in town again! We met for lunch today at Squat and Gobble. She was accompanied by her precocious and adorable 11-year-old daughter, TFN. (My acronym, not her real initials. Two points to her if she figures out the reference.)

BadMomGoodMom knit her cardigan. I'm wearing a Sewing Workshop cowl top (the older pattern), Loes Hinse pants with a giant circle pocket (which you can't see), and my Koos bag. I knit and felted the scarf a year or two ago. You can see with my hat and glasses, that I am going incognito.OK, it's just really cold.

After a yummy lunch, we retired to her car for show and tell. She purchased some nice fabrics from Stone Mountain & Daughter, and Fabrix, and also had some beautiful pieces she had knit and sewn.

So, why are we laughing in the top picture? We are holding a (plastic) rim from her wheel. This is the result of her parking job – she scraped the curb, not realizing she had dislodged the piece. Some passerby kindly picked the fallen rim off the sidewalk and placed it on her windshield.

Oops

Thanks to TFN for taking these awesome pictures!

After lunch, they were headed to northern Marin for a couple of nights stay in a friend's summer cottage. While her mom was in the bathroom, TFN said to me, "Two nights in a hut with no wifi. One of us may not come out alive."

How fun! I love TFN's comment. (Actually two days in a cottage with no wifi sounds blissful right now!)Great sweaters you are both sporting. What is the lovely fabric you used for your sweater? It looks really comfy.

I have a corner in my basement that contains a couple of plastic "oops" car parts. I keep dreaming that they're actually usable. Something tells me I'm wrong. That's just to say you're not alone BadMomGoodMom!

Shams, I am loving your scarf in these pics! Can you tell me where I could find the pattern; better yet, give me a Ravelry link? Is the yarn you used orange or more coral? (Because I think I want to be a copycat!)

We arrived home safely with no more missing car parts about 3 hours ago. The wheel cover had already been badly scuffed long ago and I was going to buy a replacement cover anyway. If TFN hadn't ratted me out, DH might never have known.

We both survived w/o wifi, though she asked me what quarks and leptons were. Fortunately, the cabin came with an enormous unabridged dictionary that defined leptons. But then I had to explain what a positron was, and the dictionary gave a mu-meson as an example of a lepton, which meant we had to look that up, too...

And then the reference to positrons reminded me of the time my graduate quantum professor mentioned positronium in class. I, the chemistry major, raised my hand and asked what that was; it wasn't on any periodic table I've ever seen. Yup, it was one of those embarrassing nightmare moments where everyone at the dinner party except me knew what they were talking about. Only it happened IRL.

You are definitely my tribe if you spend most of your day in Unix command line, writing HTML in vi! (I wrote my PhD thesis in LaTeX with vi.) Thanks for sticking up for me when TFN said that I couldn't handle technology. (FWIW, I think I .could. learn how to use the TV, but I just can't be bothered.)

By the way, I certainly do spend most of my workday in the Terminal app on my Mac. I often have 3 or 4 Terminal windows going at one time. One or two are logged into work and another one or two are on my local machine. I write XML in vi and, in some cases, run perl scripts to generate HTML. Other times I write directly in HTML. I write my blog in HTML as well.

One of my favorite UNIX utilities is find. Recently I was interviewing writer candidates and for those who knew UNIX, I would sometimes ask what their favorite UNIX utility was. ;)